Powerscourt

dc.contributor.author	Forrester, James (Irish artist, 1729-1775)
dc.coverage.spatial	The Ulster Museum
dc.date.accessioned	2008-07-03T11:42:28Z
dc.date.available	2008-07-03T11:42:28Z
dc.date.issued	2008-07-03T11:42:28Z
dc.description	A pupil of Robert West, Forrester was trained in the Dublin Society Schools where he won premiums as well as 1st prize for drawing in 1752. This illustration likely dates to this period. (Crookshank & Glin, Ireland's Painters 1600-1940, p140) He then travelled to Rome where he worked as an etcher and painter of Claudean views. He excelled in moonlit and atmospheric Italianate landscapes and appears to have enjoyed some success among patrons such as the Duke of Gloucester and Lord Shelburne. An enormous amount of information exists about Forrester in the letters of Father Thorpe, with whom he was living when he died in 1776.	en
dc.format.extent	435340 bytes
dc.format.medium	India ink (ink)	en
dc.format.mimetype	image/jpeg
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject	Powerscourt	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Waterfalls	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Art, Irish	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Painting, Irish	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Landscape painting	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Parks	en
dc.title	Powerscourt	en
dc.type	Image	en
dc.contributor.role	artist	en
dc.coverage.culture	Irish	en
dc.subject.period	18th century
dc.type.work	drawing	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2262/17930

TRIARC - Crookshank-Glin Collection (Digital Image Collection)
Images of Irish art c.1600-c1940 donated by Prof. Anne Crookshank and Dr Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin

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